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Lexicon :: Strong's H1 - 'āḇ

Aa
אָב
Transliteration
'āḇ
Pronunciation
awb
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
A root
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TWOT Reference: 4a

Strong’s Definitions

אָב ʼâb, awb; a primitive word; father, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote application:—chief, (fore-) father(-less), × patrimony, principal. Compare names in 'Abi-'.


KJV Translation Count — Total: 1,215x

The KJV translates Strong's H1 in the following manner: father (1,205x), chief (2x), families (2x), desire (1x), fatherless (with H369) (1x), forefathers (with H7223) (1x), patrimony (1x), prince (1x), principal (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 1,215x
The KJV translates Strong's H1 in the following manner: father (1,205x), chief (2x), families (2x), desire (1x), fatherless (with H369) (1x), forefathers (with H7223) (1x), patrimony (1x), prince (1x), principal (1x).
  1. father of an individual

  2. of God as father of his people

  3. head or founder of a household, group, family, or clan

  4. ancestor

    1. grandfather, forefathers — of person

    2. of people

  5. originator or patron of a class, profession, or art

  6. of producer, generator (fig.)

  7. of benevolence and protection (fig.)

  8. term of respect and honour

  9. ruler or chief (spec.)

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
אָב ʼâb, awb; a primitive word; father, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote application:—chief, (fore-) father(-less), × patrimony, principal. Compare names in 'Abi-'.
STRONGS H1: Abbreviations
אָב 1191 noun masculine father (Phoenician אב, Assyrian abu, Arabic أَبً, Sabean אב CISiv, 1, 37 1. 2 and others, Ethiopic አብ፡ Aramaic אַבָּא, axBAf  — absolute אָב Genesis 44:19 + 47 times; construct אַב Genesis 17:4, 5; (compare in אַבְרָהָם ib. & elsewhere in proper names. On Hal's proposed אֲבִר see אברהם); אֲבִי (compare Ge§§ 90, 3b, 96) Genesis 4:20 +; suffix אָבִי Genesis 19:34 + (MI אבי); אָבִיךָ Genesis 12:1 +; אָבִיו Genesis 2:24 +; אָבִ֫יהוּ Judges 14:10 + 6 times; plural אָבוֺת Exodus 12:3 +; construct אֲבוֺת Exodus 6:25 + 7 times; suffix אֲבוֺתַי (אֲבֹתַי, אֲבוֺתָ֑י) Genesis 47:9 + 15 times; אֲבוֺתֵיהֶם 1 Chronicles 4:38 + 32 times (late); אֲבוֺתָם Exodus 4:5 + 106 times etc.;
1. father of individual Genesis 2:24 (+ אֵם) Genesis 11:28, 29 (twice in verse); Genesis 19:31, 32, 33, + often (mostly J E D); of father as commanding Genesis 50:16 (J) Jeremiah 35:6f, Proverbs 6:20 (compare Genesis 18:19; J Genesis 28:1, 6 P 1 Samuel 17:20; 1 Kings 2:1); instructing מוסר Proverbs 1:8; Proverbs 4:1 (compare Deuteronomy 8:5); specifically as begetter, genitor Proverbs 23:22; Zechariah 13:3 (twice in verse) (+ אֵם) Isaiah 45:10; compare Genesis 49:4 (J) Leviticus 18:7, 8, 11 (P); rebuking Genesis 37:10; loving Genesis 37:4; Genesis 44:20 (JE; compare Genesis 22:2; Genesis 25:28; Genesis 37:3; 2 Samuel 14:1); pitying Psalm 103:13 (in simile compare 2 Samuel 18:5); blessing Genesis 27:41 (JE compare Genesis 27:4; also Genesis 28:1 P +); as glad Proverbs 10:1; Proverbs 15:20; compare Proverbs 29:3; grieving Genesis 37:35 (JE; compare 2 Samuel 12:22; 2 Samuel 19:1; 2 Samuel 19:2f) etc. Also as object of honour, obedience, love Exodus 20:12 (E)=Deuteronomy 5:16; Exodus 21:15, 17 (E) Deuteronomy 21:18, 19; Genesis 28:7 (P) 1 Kings 19:20 (all + אֵם), Genesis 50:1; Genesis 50:5 (J) Malachi 1:6 etc. Hence metaphor of intimate connection Job 17:14 to corruption I cry, My father art thou (|| אִמִּי וַאֲחֹתִי לָֽרִמָּה).
2. of God as father of his people (see RSSem 42), who constituted, controls, guides and lovingly watches over it: Deuteronomy 32:6; Jeremiah 3:4, 19; Jeremiah 31:9; Isaiah 63:16 (twice in verse); Isaiah 64:7; Malachi 1:6; Malachi 2:10 (compare Exodus 4:22; Exodus 19:4 (JE) Deuteronomy 32:11; Hosea 11:1); compare Jeremiah 2:27 (of idolatrous Israel) אֹמְרִים לָעֵץ אָבִי אַתָּה וְלָאֶבֶן אַתְּ ילדתני׃; especially God as father of Davidic line 2 Samuel 7:14; Psalm 89:27; f. of needy (late) Psalm 68:6 (compare Psalm 103:13) (in proper name, father of individual, compare below)
3. head of household, family or clan; בֵּית אָבִי as abode Genesis 38:11 (twice in verse); Leviticus 22:13 +; = family Genesis 24:40 (|| מִשְׁפַּחְתִּי) Genesis 41:51; Genesis 46:31Numbers 18:1, 2; Joshua 2:12, 18; Joshua 6:25; especially techn. of divisions of Israel לְמִשְׁפָּחוֹת אָב בֵּית Numbers 3:30, 35 = a father's house, i.e. a family or clan; more often plural (אבותם, אבותיו) בֵית אָבוֺת = father's houses = families, clans (compare Di on Exodus 6:14) Exodus 6:14; Exodus 12:3; Numbers 1:2, 18 ff (often in Numbers) Joshua 14:1; Joshua 19:51; Joshua 21:1 (twice in verse); Joshua 22:14 (twice in verse) (always P in Hexateuch); also 1 Chronicles 5:13, 15 + often in Chronicles; compare רָאשֵׁי אבות הלוים (= 'בית א 'ר) Exodus 6:25 compare 1 Kings 8:1; 1 Chronicles 6:4; 1 Chronicles 7:11 — Ezra Nehemiah.
4. ancestor
(a) of individual; grandfather (instead of precise term) Genesis 28:13; Genesis 31:10 [Genesis 32:9] (J; where used by Jacob of Abraham & then of Isaac); greatgrandfather 1 Kings 15:13; great-greatgrandfather 1 Kings 15:11 etc.; oft plural (= fathers, forefathers) Genesis 15:15; Genesis 46:34 (JE) 1 Kings 19:4; 1 Kings 21:3, 4; 2 Kings 19:12; 2 Kings 20:17 +; particularly שׁכב עם אבותיו 1 Kings 1:21; 1 Kings 2:10; 1 Kings 11:21; 1 Kings 22:40 +; joined with ויקבר עם אב׳ 1 Kings 14:31; 1 Kings 15:24; 1 Kings 22:51; 2 Kings 8:24; 2 Kings 15:38 compare 2 Kings 15:7, 2 Kings 16:20 + (all of kings of Judah); intensive, אֲבֹתֶיךָ וַאֲבוֺת אֲבֹתֶיךָ Exodus 10:6 compare Daniel 11:24;
(b) of people Genesis 10:21 (J) Genesis 17:4, 5 (P) Genesis 19:37, 38 (J) Genesis 36:9, 43 (P) Deuteronomy 26:5; Isaiah 51:2; Isaiah 43:27 (where אביך הראשׁון thy first father, see Che) compare also Ezekiel 16:3, 45 + often; plural Exodus 3:13, 15, 16 (E) Deuteronomy 1:8; Joshua 1:6; Judges 2:1; 1 Samuel 12:6 +; 1 Samuel 12:15 near the end read וּבְמַלְכְּכֶם Greek Version of the LXX We Dr.
5. originator or patron of a class, profession, or art Genesis 4:20, 21.
6. figurative of producer, Generator Job 38:28 הֲיֵשׁ לַמָּטָר אָ֑ב (|| הוֺלִיד אֶגְלֵי־טָֽל׃ מִי־).
7. figurative of benevolence & protection Job 29:6 אָב אָֽנֹכִי לָֽאֶבְיוֺנִים, compare Job 31:18; of Eliakim Isaiah 22:21; perhaps also of gracious Messianic king אֲבִי עַד Isaiah 9:5 [Isaiah 9:6] everlasting father (Ge Ew De Che Brd Di) — others divider of spoil (Abarb Hi Kn Kue BrMP).
8. term of respect & honour (Abbas, Pater, Papa, Pope); applied to master 2 Kings 5:13; priest Judges 17:10; Judges 18:19; prophet 2 Kings 2:12 (twice in verse); 2 Kings 6:21; 2 Kings 13:14 (twice in verse); compare 2 Kings 8:9; counsellor Genesis 45:8 (E; compare δευτέρου πατρός Greek Version of the LXX add. Esther 3:13; τῷ πατρί1Mac Esth 11:32); king 1 Samuel 24:12; artificer 2 Chronicles 2:12; 2 Chronicles 4:16.
9. specifically, ruler, chief (late) 1 Chronicles 2:24, 42 (twice in verse); etc. (compare Ew§ 273 b) see also EwGeschichte. i. 524. H i. 365. On the force of אָב in proper names (in many probably a divine title), see CheEncy. Bib., ABI, NAMES WITHib., NAMES, §§ 44, 45.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

2:24; 2:24; 4:20; 4:20; 4:21; 10:21; 11:28; 11:29; 12:1; 15:15; 17:4; 17:4; 17:5; 17:5; 18:19; 19:31; 19:32; 19:33; 19:34; 19:37; 19:38; 22:2; 24:40; 25:28; 27:4; 27:41; 28:1; 28:1; 28:6; 28:7; 28:13; 32:9; 36:9; 36:43; 37:3; 37:4; 37:10; 37:35; 38:11; 41:51; 44:19; 44:20; 45:8; 46:31; 46:34; 47:9; 49:4; 50:1; 50:5; 50:16

Exodus

3:13; 3:15; 3:16; 4:5; 4:22; 6:14; 6:14; 6:25; 6:25; 10:6; 12:3; 12:3; 19:4; 20:12; 21:15; 21:17

Leviticus

18:7; 18:8; 18:11; 22:13

Numbers

1:2; 1:18; 3:30; 3:35; 18:1; 18:2

Deuteronomy

1:8; 5:16; 8:5; 21:18; 21:19; 26:5; 32:6; 32:11

Joshua

1:6; 2:12; 2:18; 6:25; 14:1; 19:51; 21:1; 22:14

Judges

2:1; 14:10; 17:10; 18:19

1 Samuel

12:6; 12:15; 17:20; 24:12

2 Samuel

7:14; 12:22; 14:1; 18:5; 19:1; 19:2

1 Kings

1:21; 2:1; 2:10; 8:1; 11:21; 14:31; 15:11; 15:13; 15:24; 19:4; 19:20; 21:3; 21:4; 22:40; 22:51

2 Kings

2:12; 5:13; 6:21; 8:9; 8:24; 13:14; 15:7; 15:38; 16:20; 19:12; 20:17

1 Chronicles

2:24; 2:42; 4:38; 5:13; 5:15; 6:4; 7:11

2 Chronicles

2:12; 4:16

Esther

3:13

Job

17:14; 29:6; 31:18; 38:28

Psalms

68:6; 89:27; 103:13; 103:13

Proverbs

1:8; 4:1; 6:20; 10:1; 15:20; 23:22; 29:3

Isaiah

9:6; 22:21; 43:27; 45:10; 51:2; 63:16; 64:7

Jeremiah

2:27; 3:4; 3:19; 31:9; 35:6

Ezekiel

16:3; 16:45

Daniel

11:24

Hosea

11:1

Zechariah

13:3

Malachi

1:6; 1:6; 2:10

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H1 matches the Hebrew אָב ('āḇ),
which occurs 1,213 times in 1,060 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 6 / 22 (Num 12:14–Deu 6:23)

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 12:14 - And the LORD said unto Moses, If her father H1 had but spit in her face, should she not be ashamed seven days? let her be shut out from the camp seven days, and after that let her be received in again.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:2 - Send thou men, that they may search the land of Canaan, which I give unto the children of Israel: of every tribe of their fathers H1 shall ye send a man, every one a ruler among them.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:18 - The LORD is longsuffering, and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers H1 upon the children unto the third and fourth generation.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:23 - Surely they shall not see the land which I sware unto their fathers, H1 neither shall any of them that provoked me see it:
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 17:2 - Speak unto the children of Israel, and take of every one of them a rod according to the house of their fathers, H1 of all their princes according to the house of their fathers H1 twelve rods: write thou every man's name upon his rod.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 17:3 - And thou shalt write Aaron's name upon the rod of Levi: for one rod shall be for the head of the house of their fathers. H1
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 17:6 - And Moses spake unto the children of Israel, and every one of their princes gave him a rod apiece, for each prince one, according to their fathers' H1 houses, even twelve rods: and the rod of Aaron was among their rods.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:1 - And the LORD said unto Aaron, Thou and thy sons and thy father's H1 house with thee shall bear the iniquity of the sanctuary: and thou and thy sons with thee shall bear the iniquity of your priesthood.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:2 - And thy brethren also of the tribe of Levi, the tribe of thy father, H1 bring thou with thee, that they may be joined unto thee, and minister unto thee: but thou and thy sons with thee shall minister before the tabernacle of witness.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:15 - How our fathers H1 went down into Egypt, and we have dwelt in Egypt a long time; and the Egyptians vexed us, and our fathers: H1
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 25:14 - Now the name of the Israelite that was slain, even that was slain with the Midianitish woman, was Zimri, the son of Salu, a prince of a chief H1 house among the Simeonites.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 25:15 - And the name of the Midianitish woman that was slain was Cozbi, the daughter of Zur; he was head over a people, and of a chief H1 house in Midian.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:2 - Take the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel, from twenty years old and upward, throughout their fathers' H1 house, all that are able to go to war in Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:55 - Notwithstanding the land shall be divided by lot: according to the names of the tribes of their fathers H1 they shall inherit.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 27:3 - Our father H1 died in the wilderness, and he was not in the company of them that gathered themselves together against the LORD in the company of Korah; but died in his own sin, and had no sons.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 27:4 - Why should the name of our father H1 be done away from among his family, because he hath no son? Give unto us therefore a possession among the brethren of our father. H1
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 27:7 - The daughters of Zelophehad speak right: thou shalt surely give them a possession of an inheritance among their father's H1 brethren; and thou shalt cause the inheritance of their father H1 to pass unto them.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 27:10 - And if he have no brethren, then ye shall give his inheritance unto his father's H1 brethren.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 27:11 - And if his father have H1 no brethren, then ye shall give his inheritance unto his kinsman that is next to him of his family, and he shall possess it: and it shall be unto the children of Israel a statute of judgment, as the LORD commanded Moses.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 30:3 - If a woman also vow a vow unto the LORD, and bind herself by a bond, being in her father's H1 house in her youth;
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 30:4 - And her father H1 hear her vow, and her bond wherewith she hath bound her soul, and her father H1 shall hold his peace at her: then all her vows shall stand, and every bond wherewith she hath bound her soul shall stand.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 30:5 - But if her father H1 disallow her in the day that he heareth; not any of her vows, or of her bonds wherewith she hath bound her soul, shall stand: and the LORD shall forgive her, because her father H1 disallowed her.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 30:16 - These are the statutes, which the LORD commanded Moses, between a man and his wife, between the father H1 and his daughter, being yet in her youth in her father's H1 house.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:26 - Take the sum of the prey that was taken, both of man and of beast, thou, and Eleazar the priest, and the chief fathers H1 of the congregation:
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:8 - Thus did your fathers, H1 when I sent them from Kadeshbarnea to see the land.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:14 - And, behold, ye are risen up in your fathers' H1 stead, an increase of sinful men, to augment yet the fierce anger of the LORD toward Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:28 - So concerning them Moses commanded Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun, and the chief fathers H1 of the tribes of the children of Israel:
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:54 - And ye shall divide the land by lot for an inheritance among your families: and to the more ye shall give the more inheritance, and to the fewer ye shall give the less inheritance: every man's inheritance shall be in the place where his lot falleth; according to the tribes of your fathers H1 ye shall inherit.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 34:14 - For the tribe of the children of Reuben according to the house of their fathers, H1 and the tribe of the children of Gad according to the house of their fathers, H1 have received their inheritance; and half the tribe of Manasseh have received their inheritance:
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 36:1 - And the H1 chief fathers H1 of the families of the children of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of the sons of Joseph, came near, and spake before Moses, and before the princes, the chief fathers H1 of the children of Israel:
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 36:3 - And if they be married to any of the sons of the other tribes of the children of Israel, then shall their inheritance be taken from the inheritance of our fathers, H1 and shall be put to the inheritance of the tribe whereunto they are received: so shall it be taken from the lot of our inheritance.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 36:4 - And when the jubile of the children of Israel shall be, then shall their inheritance be put unto the inheritance of the tribe whereunto they are received: so shall their inheritance be taken away from the inheritance of the tribe of our fathers. H1
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 36:6 - This is the thing which the LORD doth command concerning the daughters of Zelophehad, saying, Let them marry to whom they think best; only to the family of the tribe of their father H1 shall they marry.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 36:7 - So shall not the inheritance of the children of Israel remove from tribe to tribe: for every one of the children of Israel shall keep himself to the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers. H1
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 36:8 - And every daughter, that possesseth an inheritance in any tribe of the children of Israel, shall be wife unto one of the family of the tribe of her father, H1 that the children of Israel may enjoy every man the inheritance of his fathers. H1
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 36:12 - And they were married into the families of the sons of Manasseh the son of Joseph, and their inheritance remained in the tribe of the family of their father. H1
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:8 - Behold, I have set the land before you: go in and possess the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers, H1 Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give unto them and to their seed after them.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:11 - (The LORD God of your fathers H1 make you a thousand times so many more as ye are, and bless you, as he hath promised you!)
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:21 - Behold, the LORD thy God hath set the land before thee: go up and possess it, as the LORD God of thy fathers H1 hath said unto thee; fear not, neither be discouraged.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:35 - Surely there shall not one of these men of this evil generation see that good land, which I sware to give unto your fathers, H1
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:1 - Now therefore hearken, O Israel, unto the statutes and unto the judgments, which I teach you, for to do them, that ye may live, and go in and possess the land which the LORD God of your fathers H1 giveth you.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:31 - (For the LORD thy God is a merciful God;) he will not forsake thee, neither destroy thee, nor forget the covenant of thy fathers H1 which he sware unto them.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:37 - And because he loved thy fathers, H1 therefore he chose their seed after them, and brought thee out in his sight with his mighty power out of Egypt;
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:3 - The LORD made not this covenant with our fathers, H1 but with us, even us, who are all of us here alive this day.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:9 - Thou shalt not bow down thyself unto them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers H1 upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:16 - Honour thy father H1 and thy mother, as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee; that thy days may be prolonged, and that it may go well with thee, in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:3 - Hear therefore, O Israel, and observe to do it; that it may be well with thee, and that ye may increase mightily, as the LORD God of thy fathers H1 hath promised thee, in the land that floweth with milk and honey.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:10 - And it shall be, when the LORD thy God shall have brought thee into the land which he sware unto thy fathers, H1 to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give thee great and goodly cities, which thou buildedst not,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:18 - And thou shalt do that which is right and good in the sight of the LORD: that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest go in and possess the good land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers, H1
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:23 - And he brought us out from thence, that he might bring us in, to give us the land which he sware unto our fathers. H1

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